Lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic - podcast

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Science writer and journalist Laura Spinney discusses the outbreak of Spanish flu, one of the worst virus outbreak of modern times

The world of 2020 is vastly different from 1918, the year Spanish flu began to spread around the world. By 1920, Spanish flu is thought to have claimed the lives of up to 100 million people.

 

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to keep political correctness, considering 'chinese flu' is quite offensive, how about calling it the 1918 flu pandemic?

First lesson should be stop calling the 1918 pandemic flu as Spanish Flu, since the zero patience was in a Kansas military quarters. The only reason for calling way that was the allies news censorship due to the war, not valid in the Spanish papers which freely wrote about it.

Nothing to Learn from Here, Move along please.

Until another new virus pops up

1918 Spanish flu after dazal release from a thousand year. and 2000, sars after he free from a thousand months. now he out after thousand weeks, everybody need vaccine to kill novel KoronA PIRus

Again, the black death from China caused 150 million deaths of mice and fleas. 1347 1352

Don’t bother, no one is going to learn from it.😒

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Lesson 1 Do not Lie to the people. So Umm the narrative now is that Louisiana has more dead than Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai combined. Ummmmm. Sure they do. Just like the hospitals in NY are overrun ( even though people have been down there filming, seeing nothing unusual.

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